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Hi. I don’t know you. I don’t know what you go through. I don’t know what challenges you face daily.

We all fight battles with the world. We fight with love or for love. We fight for our friends and family or with them. We fight sickness. We fight work struggles. We fight with life and for life and about life here.

In Luke in the Bible, Jesus reminds us to simply remember Lot’s wife. When we are facing changes or transformations in our lives, we must steel our hearts and forge ahead in the unknown and uncertain direction of God’s plans though the way is scary, uphill, and surrounded in fog. The future is unclear. We are reminded to walk by faith and not by sight into the plan of our destiny.

As Elsa would sing at this pivotal character moment in Frozen 2, we are considering the unknown of life and answering a siren call that won’t leave our hearts alone.

“Are you here to distract me so I make a big mistake or are you someone out there who’s a little bit like me, who knows deep down I’m not where I’m meant to be? Everyday is a little harder as I feel my power grow. Don’t you know there’s part of me that longs to go into the unknown. Are you out there? Do you know me? Can you feel me? Can you show me?”

Remember Lot’s wife.

She started into the unknown. She followed the advice of the 2 angels. She escaped to the hills but she must have heard something that made her pause and she looked back. Screams or terror perhaps. In verse 26 chapter 19 she looked back and froze into a calcified pillar of salt unable to move forward. She lingered for the past.

Many assume she longed for something. She longed for old memories, for her home, for her old family and friends and neighbors. Perhaps she was stuck in fear, shame, guilt, offense, disappointment, bitterness, grief, unforgiveness, addictions, or a culture of success.

Yes, I think she was stuck in all of these emotions but sadly I think the one emotion that did her in, is surprisingly the most humane and realistic for her being a good woman of faith in the moment. I think Lot’s wife was moved by one emotion more than anything else that trapped her in stagnation.

Pity.

It was pity that made her turn.

Sometimes we want to help those we shouldn’t help. We want to rescue those we shouldn’t rescue and let fate determine their course in life.

And this is the hardest part and how good people get trapped and even fail.

Moving forward requires fortitude and faith and even an almost savage level of strength and resolve of heart to not go back or give in to pleas or supplications.

I don’t think Lot’s wife was a bad woman. In fact, I think she was more empathetic, compassionate, and the most loving of all to her own demise.

Morale of the story…I don’t know really.

Look to the future. Look to the Way, the Truth, and the Light. But when the time comes to make the choice between the life raft or going down with the ship, I won’t fault you for choosing to stay and turn back.

Some heroes move forward.

Some stay with a sinking ship.

This is life.

This is choices.

Right or wrong…does it really matter?